blame
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The changes also encouraged junior doctors to raise concerns without fear of blame.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
“He did not much like me,” Maugham writes, “for which I cannot blame him, since I do not think I was a likeable boy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Lauryn Hill is off the hook as Essence takes blame for a set that wrapped after 3:30 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
If a model winds up causing a big problem in your life, you might feel tempted to blame the billionaire humans behind it.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
I didn’t know what he expected when he imagined the caravan as a family, but I didn’t blame the furrier or the jeweler for rejecting it.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
He blames a tradition of risk aversion and a hierarchical organization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Cohen blames other departments’ delays in turning over data as part of the reason for its chronic lateness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He blames cellphones, saying, “There’s more money being stolen with that phone than there’s ever been with a gun.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
She likens the current situation to a farmer having a bull in a field which escapes and causes destruction – and the farmer blames the bull.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“No. She even told me one day he blames her for what happened.”
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
Krems has blamed the alleged abuse on the couple’s nannies and suggested Xuan and Zhang are the victims of rising anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Social media has found a culprit: Passengers who use the bags to store trash often get blamed for exacerbating the scarcity problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Dozens of people gathered on Friday outside the school to mourn the children who were killed in the collapse, which officials blamed on dilapidated infrastructure.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
But when it withheld similar information in 2017, amid a tense military stand-off with India, Beijing blamed technical problems at its hydrological monitoring stations in Tibet, Singh said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
I blamed you for trying to save me.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
Although the companies aren’t publicly blaming AI, the technology has been a factor, people familiar with the matter say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Today, she’s stalled out and blaming her failure on happenstance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The dispute dates back to March when management announced plans to cut up to 100 posts, blaming a sharp fall in income from international students.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
“They basically dug their own grave,” Abbott said to ABC, blaming tech companies for moving too fast without consulting local stakeholders.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Ernest mollified Stone by blaming Time's editors for the slights.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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